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  1. fuck yes -- YIVO's new United Hebrew Trades collection still yielding some real gems. this is an ad in the back of the UHT's 40th anniversary journal (1928). Benjamin Greenberg (1882–1944) was, like Joseph Moskowitz, born in Galați Romania and apparently followed in his cimbalist-restaurateur footsteps.

    #cimbalom #LowerEastSide #MusicHistory

  2. fuck yes -- YIVO's new United Hebrew Trades collection still yielding some real gems. this is an ad in the back of the UHT's 40th anniversary journal (1928). Benjamin Greenberg (1882–1944) was, like Joseph Moskowitz, born in Galați Romania and apparently followed in his cimbalist-restaurateur footsteps.

    #cimbalom #LowerEastSide #MusicHistory

  3. clearly a different cymbalist playing a totally different instrument on this one (a concert cimbalom with dampeners and much larger range). curious who it might have been, there weren't that many players in New York in that era, and almost no Ukrainian ones.
    adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php

    #cimbalom #fiddler #UkrainianMusic #fiddle

  4. clearly a different cymbalist playing a totally different instrument on this one (a concert cimbalom with dampeners and much larger range). curious who it might have been, there weren't that many players in New York in that era, and almost no Ukrainian ones.
    adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php

    #cimbalom #fiddler #UkrainianMusic #fiddle

  5. plenty of other nice ones on youtube including a few I hadn't heard. didn't see any old videos of him from state TV folklore broadcasts yet but I'm sure they're out there.
    youtube.com/watch?v=SyHK-fXNF1o

    #Bucharest #cimbalom #Romania #FolkMusic

  6. plenty of other nice ones on youtube including a few I hadn't heard. didn't see any old videos of him from state TV folklore broadcasts yet but I'm sure they're out there.
    youtube.com/watch?v=SyHK-fXNF1o

    #Bucharest #cimbalom #Romania #FolkMusic

  7. listening to Mitică Ciuciu (1913-96) on this rainy day, a Romanian #cimbalom player mostly unknown today, teacher to many other players including most famously Toni Iordache. seen here slightly AI yassified and turned into an orchestral conductor for some reason
    youtube.com/watch?v=qlkE2f66Yg8

    #FolkMusic #dulcimer #Romania #Bucharest

  8. listening to Mitică Ciuciu (1913-96) on this rainy day, a Romanian #cimbalom player mostly unknown today, teacher to many other players including most famously Toni Iordache. seen here slightly AI yassified and turned into an orchestral conductor for some reason
    youtube.com/watch?v=qlkE2f66Yg8

    #FolkMusic #dulcimer #Romania #Bucharest

  9. was listening to Mitica Ciuciu on my bike ride home (great cimbalom player and teacher to the much more famous Toni Iordache) and got to thinking of this which must be the best cimbalom recording of all time. there's some competition but it's up there.
    (apologies for the AI yassified Toni Iordache on the official record label channel)
    youtube.com/watch?v=r_6eitAkj8I

    #Romania #Bucharest #FolkMusic #cimbalom

  10. was listening to Mitica Ciuciu on my bike ride home (great cimbalom player and teacher to the much more famous Toni Iordache) and got to thinking of this which must be the best cimbalom recording of all time. there's some competition but it's up there.
    (apologies for the AI yassified Toni Iordache on the official record label channel)
    youtube.com/watch?v=r_6eitAkj8I

    #Romania #Bucharest #FolkMusic #cimbalom

  11. wrote up a blog post about my impressions of the newly-released digital archive of cimbalom player Joseph Moskowitz, which was put online this week. It's a mess, but there's a lot of great stuff in it.
    alte.klezmor.im/2026/05/23/tho

    #cimbalom #dulcimer #HammeredDulcimer #Romania #MusicHistory #MusicArchive #MusicManuscripts #klezmer #JewishMusic

  12. wrote up a blog post about my impressions of the newly-released digital archive of cimbalom player Joseph Moskowitz, which was put online this week. It's a mess, but there's a lot of great stuff in it.
    alte.klezmor.im/2026/05/23/tho

    #cimbalom #dulcimer #HammeredDulcimer #Romania #MusicHistory #MusicArchive #MusicManuscripts #klezmer #JewishMusic

  13. reminder, this zoom event commemorating the launch of Joseph Moskowitz's archive is today at 2pm EST. a great klezmer composer, cimbalom player, owner of Moskowitz & Lupowitz restaurant which was once a great nightlife spot for New York celebs.
    ctmd.org/events/joseph-moskowi

    #MusicHistory #cimbalom #FolkMusic #klezmer #JewishMusic #RomanianMusic

  14. reminder, this zoom event commemorating the launch of Joseph Moskowitz's archive is today at 2pm EST. a great klezmer composer, cimbalom player, owner of Moskowitz & Lupowitz restaurant which was once a great nightlife spot for New York celebs.
    ctmd.org/events/joseph-moskowi

    #MusicHistory #cimbalom #FolkMusic #klezmer #JewishMusic #RomanianMusic

  15. too short-notice for me to fly cross country, and I'm way too busy in May anyways, but dang this looks cool and I'd love to go another year. perhaps a dulcimer-head in #Toronto on here would be interested in this?
    agakhanmuseum.org/series/hamme

    #HammeredDulcimer #cimbalom #santur #santoor

  16. too short-notice for me to fly cross country, and I'm way too busy in May anyways, but dang this looks cool and I'd love to go another year. perhaps a dulcimer-head in #Toronto on here would be interested in this?
    agakhanmuseum.org/series/hamme

    #HammeredDulcimer #cimbalom #santur #santoor

  17. h/t to my friend Shaun in Romania who noticed that Electrecord (the former state-owned record label in Romania during communist times, now a for-profit company owning basically all Romanian music from the postwar era) deleted and is reposting all their back catalogue with AI enhanced / yassified versions of the 1970s artist photos. 🤦‍♀️archival malpractice

    #Romania #AIslop #Electrecord #cimbalom

  18. h/t to my friend Shaun in Romania who noticed that Electrecord (the former state-owned record label in Romania during communist times, now a for-profit company owning basically all Romanian music from the postwar era) deleted and is reposting all their back catalogue with AI enhanced / yassified versions of the 1970s artist photos. 🤦‍♀️archival malpractice

    #Romania #AIslop #Electrecord #cimbalom

  19. Portland OR folks, check out my friend Zoë Aqua's upcoming show with her band marrying klezmer and Transylvanian fiddle music. their album was one of my faves of last year.
    ejcpdx.org/events/2026/2/21/cg

    #klezmer #JewishMusic #PortlandOR #Transylvania #Fiddle #Cimbalom

  20. Portland OR folks, check out my friend Zoë Aqua's upcoming show with her band marrying klezmer and Transylvanian fiddle music. their album was one of my faves of last year.
    ejcpdx.org/events/2026/2/21/cg

    #klezmer #JewishMusic #PortlandOR #Transylvania #Fiddle #Cimbalom

  21. randomly thought of this legendary bootleg wedding video featuring my musical hero Toni Iordache, as well as some other legends of Romanian music like Ionică Minune and Ion Drăgoi
    youtube.com/watch?v=wcABG6gmCTM

    #Romania #FolkMusic #cimbalom #fiddle #accordion #RomanianMusic #lautar

  22. randomly thought of this legendary bootleg wedding video featuring my musical hero Toni Iordache, as well as some other legends of Romanian music like Ionică Minune and Ion Drăgoi
    youtube.com/watch?v=wcABG6gmCTM

    #Romania #FolkMusic #cimbalom #fiddle #accordion #RomanianMusic #lautar

  23. RE: klezmor.im/@carkner/1155848885

    in case you missed it, an excellent #klezmer trio livestreamed from the Center for Jewish History last night. including Andy Statman, who studied under Dave Tarras back in the day.

    #clarinet #trombone #cimbalom #JewishMusic

  24. RE: klezmor.im/@carkner/1155848885

    in case you missed it, an excellent #klezmer trio livestreamed from the Center for Jewish History last night. including Andy Statman, who studied under Dave Tarras back in the day.

    #clarinet #trombone #cimbalom #JewishMusic

  25. take on the tune by this great historically informed performance group from Suceava called Zicălașii. they have hours of performances on youtube if you want to hear 1-200 year old Romanian dances.
    youtu.be/h38PljwDdv4?si=VPpQMX

    #FolkMusic #violin #cimbalom #RomanianMusic #Suceava #Bucovina #Romania

  26. take on the tune by this great historically informed performance group from Suceava called Zicălașii. they have hours of performances on youtube if you want to hear 1-200 year old Romanian dances.
    youtu.be/h38PljwDdv4?si=VPpQMX

    #FolkMusic #violin #cimbalom #RomanianMusic #Suceava #Bucovina #Romania

  27. ah, for some reason I didn't connect that this famous photo of a Galician klezmer band (from the YIVO collection) is of this same Zimbler family from Przemyśl, but of an older generation. some captions say Leopold is one of the violinists, but if so the year may be wrong, as he was already in NYC in 1905.

    #klezmer #JewishHistory #Przemyśl #OldPhotos #cimbalom #StringBand

  28. ah, for some reason I didn't connect that this famous photo of a Galician klezmer band (from the YIVO collection) is of this same Zimbler family from Przemyśl, but of an older generation. some captions say Leopold is one of the violinists, but if so the year may be wrong, as he was already in NYC in 1905.

    #klezmer #JewishHistory #Przemyśl #OldPhotos #cimbalom #StringBand

  29. reading up about the #78rpm phonograph era again for an article I'm trying to write and decided to see what new discs had been posted to @internetarchive since last time I looked. Here's an interesting Hungarian-style #cimbalom and #tarogato piece by anonymous artists, recorded in NYC around 1910. The tarogato player may have been called A. Selzer.

    #HungarianMusic #FolkMusic #MagyarNóta

  30. reading up about the #78rpm phonograph era again for an article I'm trying to write and decided to see what new discs had been posted to @internetarchive since last time I looked. Here's an interesting Hungarian-style #cimbalom and #tarogato piece by anonymous artists, recorded in NYC around 1910. The tarogato player may have been called A. Selzer.

    #HungarianMusic #FolkMusic #MagyarNóta

  31. A thread of recent #klezmer albums worth checking out – Jake Shulman-Ment and Abigale Reisman's "Two Strings." Two of the top klez fiddlers of the US East Coast, IMO this collaboration displays their love of crunchy string ensemble rhythms, baroque melodies and nigunim.
    borschtbeat.bandcamp.com/album

    #Fiddle #Cimbalom #JewishMusic #violin #bandcamp

  32. A thread of recent #klezmer albums worth checking out – Jake Shulman-Ment and Abigale Reisman's "Two Strings." Two of the top klez fiddlers of the US East Coast, IMO this collaboration displays their love of crunchy string ensemble rhythms, baroque melodies and nigunim.
    borschtbeat.bandcamp.com/album

    #Fiddle #Cimbalom #JewishMusic #violin #bandcamp

  33. A thread of recent #klezmer albums worth checking out –
    Zoë Aqua's "In a Sea of Stars" recorded in two Romanian synagogues during a recent tour. Like a fusion of klezmer and Transylvanian fiddle music, the logical result of her several years of field work in the region.
    zoeaqua.bandcamp.com/album/in-

    #fiddle #cimbalom #bandcamp #JewishMusic #Transylvania #Romania

  34. A thread of recent #klezmer albums worth checking out –
    Zoë Aqua's "In a Sea of Stars" recorded in two Romanian synagogues during a recent tour. Like a fusion of klezmer and Transylvanian fiddle music, the logical result of her several years of field work in the region.
    zoeaqua.bandcamp.com/album/in-

    #fiddle #cimbalom #bandcamp #JewishMusic #Transylvania #Romania

  35. "Beyond Joseph Moskowitz" .. I started writing this post in Brooklyn back in April, but I soon realized it would be a lot of work and would be a distraction from my archival research. But now that I've been back I've had time to finish researching it and typing it up. A look at some of the better and lesser known Jewish cimbalom players from the directories of A.F.M. local 802, 1922-50. A truly niche deep dive for my own interest!
    alte.klezmor.im/2025/05/24/jew

    #MusicHistory #cimbalom #JewishMusic

  36. "Beyond Joseph Moskowitz" .. I started writing this post in Brooklyn back in April, but I soon realized it would be a lot of work and would be a distraction from my archival research. But now that I've been back I've had time to finish researching it and typing it up. A look at some of the better and lesser known Jewish cimbalom players from the directories of A.F.M. local 802, 1922-50. A truly niche deep dive for my own interest!
    alte.klezmor.im/2025/05/24/jew

    #MusicHistory #cimbalom #JewishMusic

  37. Found out about her while researching a blog post about old Jewish #cimbalom players from New York... Regina Spielman (née Szegeti?) born in Máramarossziget, Hungary in 1885, lived in Budapest for a time and possibly Kolomyyia; came to NY in 1923. Played on the radio a bit in NY in the 1920s with a family trio. Apparently related to the violinist Joseph Szigeti. Lived in the Bronx most of her life and died in 1966.

    #klezmer #cymbalom #Hungary #Sighet #MusicHistory #Bronx #RadioHistory

  38. Found out about her while researching a blog post about old Jewish #cimbalom players from New York... Regina Spielman (née Szegeti?) born in Máramarossziget, Hungary in 1885, lived in Budapest for a time and possibly Kolomyyia; came to NY in 1923. Played on the radio a bit in NY in the 1920s with a family trio. Apparently related to the violinist Joseph Szigeti. Lived in the Bronx most of her life and died in 1966.

    #klezmer #cymbalom #Hungary #Sighet #MusicHistory #Bronx #RadioHistory